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during those three months. In the year 1843 Cape Comorin is added to the eight stations 
in Travancore, and the observations at all the stations are for the whole year. AtCape 
Comorin, at an elevation of fifty feet above the sea, we have the singular fact of not a 
single shower having fallen in the months of February, March, April, August and No- 
vember, months belonging to both monsoons; and the fall for the whole year at Cape 
Comorin was only 19:2 inches. At Palamcottah, on the Coromandel side, there was 
not a single fall of rain in the months of June, July, August and September, and only 
1 and 3 and 1 and 4 falls respectively in the months of February and March, at all 
the stations in Tinnevelly. The total fall at each station exhibits a rapid increase in 
quantity, in increasing the latitude, as is shown by the annexed tabular statement. 
TRAVANCORE. 
Cape Comorin,| Nagercoil, | Treyandrum, Quilon, Koravantava- Allepy, 
50 feet 150 feet 130 feet 30 feet lum, 300 feet 30 feet 
above sea. above sea, above sea. above sea. above sea. above sea. 
Ce ee ee EO 
From May 
only, 1841j ... | .... | 73 | 46:8 |103 | 86:07 | 124/ 94-76] ... | ... 1140) 96:8 
1842)... | ... | 63 | 385°7 | 97 |57-7 |131| 81:06] tmecomplete | 168} 104:5 
1843 | 32 | 19:2 | 71 | 42:6 124 85°45 | 121 |105-7 2 129-0 | 184 | 131-85 
CocuHIn. TINNEVELLY. 
Cochin, Tritchoor, Chittoor, Shenkotah, | Palamcottah,} Vaurioor, 
20 feet 60 feet 400 feet 600 or 700 feet 200 feet 60 feet 
above sea. above sea. above sea. above, sea, above sea. above sea. 
From May From Oct. 
28 | 3)-48)} 20 | 14:57} 29 | 18-05 
only, 1841}124| 77:3 
Incomplete. 
Incomplete. 
1842 | 119} 105-27} 129| 104-4 | 82 | 52-3 | 51 | 39:45) 71 | 23:1 | 60 | 20:27 
1843 | 138 | 124-49) 115} 80-15/108} 68:6.| 68 | 48:1 | 58 | 26:9 | 66 | 25-75 
It exhibits also the fact of the total fall on the Coromandel side bearing no compari-— 
~ son to that on the Travancore side. or instance, at Shenkotah, at the east base of 
the Ghats, sixty miles from the sea coast of Travancore, and about eighteen miles due 
east of Koravantavalum on the west side of the Ghats, and forty miles from Quilon, the 
fall of rain at Shenkotah was 48-1 in. in 1843, and at Koravantavalum 129 inches, 
both places being at a considerable elevation. Palamcottah again is in the latitude 
of Quilon, is sixty miles from the western coast, and thirty miles east of the chain of 
Ghats. Here the fall of rain was 26-9 inches in 18438, while at Quilon, on the western 
coast, the fall was 105-7 inches. Cape Comorin and Vaurioor are placed in the same 
category, but the former is in Travancore and the latter in Tinnevelly, the latter 
being only three miles N. and a little E. from the former; but the difference is 63 
inches of rain in favour of Vaurioor. The next feature is the singularly limited 
fall of rain at Cape Comorin and Vaurioor, both of them situated at the extremity of 
the peninsula of India, and both freely expesed to the first action of both monsoons, 
N.W. and S.E., and yet the amount of rain is not one-fifth the amount of that which 
falls at places on the Travancore coast, a few miles N.W. Nagercoil is the next sta- 
tion to Cape Comorin and comes into the same category, but it is nine miles inland, 
and though so near to Cape Comorin, has a fall of rain more than double that of the 
Cape. The next feature is the great and progressive increase in the fall of rain which 
takes place at the respective stations as they lie north-westward from Cape Comorin, 
along the western coast. Trevandrum, Quilon and Allepy, are apparently under nearly 
similar physical circumstances on the coast, yet the first in 1843 had only 85 inches, 
the second 105, and the last 131 inches of rain. Chittoor, which is fifty-five miles in- 
